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Julia Gwendolyn Schneider

Julia Gwendolyn Schneider is an art critic based in Berlin. She studied American Studies, Cultural Sciences, and Aesthetics at Humbolt University, Berlin, and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, London. In 2001, she has curated an exhibition on net art at Humbolt University, and in 2002 was assistant curator for Urban Drift, an international collaborative platform in Berlin for contemporary urban strategies. In 2006, she worked in arts administration for the Biennale of Sydney and the Australia Council for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in art catalogues and art magazines such as springerin, Mute, artnet, von hundert, Camera Austria, and in the daily taz. In 2008, she undertook a research trip to Kyrgyzstan and wrote about art production under post-Soviet conditions. Since 2006, the Asia-Pacific region has been a focus in her writing, including essays on numerous topics such as alternative art spaces, the survival of The Artists Village in Singapore, video art and media activism in Indonesia, and the documentary titled IPHONECHINA.